Yup, I donât feel hate toward people that are âplaying the systemâ so to speak when the system is so dysfunctional as it is today
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I remember McEnroe getting defaulted. Supposedly he was stunned because he wasnât aware of a recent rule change as to how many warnings a player could get.
Cynical bugger, but fantastic player.
Iâm inclined to defend Djokovic, even though I think heâs an arrogant twat. Denying somebody the right of employment, even a multimillionaire, is awful.
I read a poster in another thread describing succinctly how we were originally told vaccinations would be optional, and many of us went and get jabbed. Then, when the majority of people had received a jab the authorities started using the stick on the minority who were refusing. Itâs bullying, itâs immoral, it sets a scary precedent.
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Yes, I looked it up today, surprised that it was 32 years ago !!! And yes, he thought he had 4 âstrikesâ available, but it had been changed to 3 not long before.
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People at the top of their game often are. It sort of comes with the territory. But the law is supposed to be blind, and as you said this basically boils down to a right to employment. Whether youâre a twat or not shouldnât have a bearing on whether youâre allowed to do your day job (although I concede this might be a good rule for politicians).
A few years ago the idea of making someone get a medical treatment that he doesnât actually need as a condition for playing a game of tennis would have been considered ⌠dystopian, or possibly just laughably stupid. And here we are in a world where people are ripping him to pieces for wanting to do something which is basically very ordinary and mundane without interference (even if he stands to get paid a lot of money for it).
âThe court will reconvene at 5:45pm AEDTâ - which is 2:45pm in Taiwan.
So in 15 minutes we may have a decision.
Yeah. It was much discussed before he arrived that he wasnât vaccinated and therefore without a special exemption he wouldnât get in. He also didnât fill in his own visa documents and got someone else to do them.
He also went out twice while knowingly infected, meeting children and adults.
Itâs entirely his fault. Rules are things people break. And then we judge them for doing so.
Go home Novak, you stupid prick.
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Well, as is common, I canât tell if youâre being serious or sarcastic. I was just pointing out that, back in the days when the world was slightly less broken, we didnât actually care if people went outside while they had the sniffles, or got on planes afterwards. And now we do; and furthermore it gives people an excuse to get on a moral high horse so ginormous that the Trojans would have been proud of it.
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He is out, deportation time!!!
âNovak Djokovic has lost his Federal Court fight to stay in Australia
His application has been dismissedâ.
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Itâs best to assume Iâm always being serious.
Getting in to Australia is notoriously difficult. Nothing has changed there. Take an undeclared apple to Australia? 250 dollar fine. No quibbling. Turn up with an iffy visa. Back you go.
Novak, furthermore, has now pushed the limits of civility by trying repeatedly to weasel his way in to Australia. Iâll be very surprised if they let him in.
The sniffles arenât causing people to die, or possibly contract long term lung and heart conditions. No matter what people may choose to believe about Covid, itâs not the sniffles.
He canât appeal any more, so he will leave as soon as he/they can get him on a flight. He came in on Emirates, so probably had a return ticket, which could quite possibly see him departing on EK409 to Dubai at 22:30 tonight (Melbourne time). No mention of the â3 yearâ rule for deportees, but you can bet your life that the only way he would be able to come back inside that would include producing a Vaccination Certificate.
Now, will the French let him in for the French Open in May (Macron says he will âpiss them offâ when he refers to the unvaccinated).
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No matter what one chooses to believe about COVID, Novak does not present a risk to anybody. His âbreaking quarantineâ did not (and could not, not even in theory) have any material impact on the progress of the disease - and perhaps more importantly, it shouldnât have any relevance to the issue of an Australian visa.
Of course the Australians are entitled to impose whatever border controls they like. But if those controls are fundamentally stupid, Iâd suggest that the rest of the world has a duty to mock them without mercy, and not to indulge them.
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Awesome news. Heâs really done himself no favours.
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I donât see how yet another person being needlessly and gratuitously harmed is âawesome newsâ.
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Thatâs on you, Finley old chap. Personally Iâm delighted.
Isnât life a queer old thing!
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Well, explain it to me then. How has this judgement made the world a better place?
Without wishing to be personal, I honestly donât think it would be possible to explain it to you. Your personal bias is so heavily confirmed at this point that Iâm not sure itâs possible. Iâd rather attempt to rob Fort Knox with a stick of butter. Stay well.
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Ding dong the witch is dead.
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Thatâs what I heard, he already had caught it and therefore had natural immunity, not perfect but regarded as better than the vaccine. Tests were done on people who caught the original SARS virus and they found they had strong immunity 20 years later.
Yet, there is minimal recognition of natural immunity or if there is they only count it for 6 months.
Some find that odd. Others are less questioning on why that is and just go along with the appeal from authority that everyone needs the vaccine.
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Behrouz Boochani
âWhile Djokovic has a safe, comfortable life to return to, refugees who flee their homes only to be deported- are doubly persecuted. They cannot return safely. This is what it means to be a refugee.â
The saga has somewhat highlighted a far more important issue of the terrible inhuman treatment Australian authorities dish out to these wretched human beings.
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